Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-10-28
CHAPTER VI.-GOOD NIGHT.

While they were slowly dispensing
there WAS Il little opportunity for whisper
ed condolences
Iavinia Medlock, for instance--she had
once been so truly great that nobody call
ed her Mrs, Medlock, just as one says
George Eliot-succeeded in getting Lady
Augusta to herself. She WAS one of those
who always want to whisper confiden.
TALLY, aud, whatever she had to say,
always led the conversation round to her.
self aud her own wants.
ooh dear Lady Augusta"-she sighed
and clasped her hands-"Oh it was too
delightful Nobody but you would have
found and secured such man. Oh how
fortunate we have BEEN Such Powers
Such Fulness Such an Abundance;
and what an OutpOuring upon my poor
Hetty. Oh he makes us poor common
mediums feel so cheap and small. Oh,
should think he is too great to be ever
taken in by lying spirit, as happens
sometimes to the best of Us. Think of
what | AN and what | used to be. oh /!
dear-dear-and | so trusted Petern'
YES, Mrs. Medlock, we are now on a
different plane altogether"
1--WE are, indeed aud yet one feels, after
all, that one has been worker in the
same Field, Lady Augusta, it is already
whispered in the room'-here she became
very confidential-"thaty you are going to
found a ege-actually a College-for
the PursuiG Of the Ancient Wayn
"Really it is the first have heard of it >"
'Oh yes; it is confidently whisper
ed, and would so gladly hellup"
"Well, Mrs. Medlock, | assure you that
lyrt..r / t,NFr Of 4
that may follow do not depend upon me.
"Not altogether. But everybody knows
that you are our real Leader, and / would
so gladly hellup. AMI oh Lady Augusta,
you saw my Hetty-poor Hetty =
could never teach her anything-and
tonight she has come out so beautifully
There is Clalrvoyance in her of the high
est order. If she would only be guided by
me.n
"You must not teach her to think of
money, Mrs. Medlock, or you will spoil
her"
"Well-perhaps-no yet. However, |
hope she VIII keep better company among
the Spirits than her poor mother could
contriye. And oh Lady Augusta, Col
iege wants secretaries and clerks, and
now gladly would we hellup. Hetty could
90 the spirit work and i could receive the
fees, you know"
'All this is really premature"
IT IS exactly the work for which | was
fitted; have been looking for it all my
life. icould giye.you SO much hellup. And
oh ~ you did but know how badly
| want the work. The last society is
broken up, and-.and-here is that Mr..
Rudge. Do you know why he was turn
ed out of his last situation ?"
Lavinia retired and the Rev. BENJAMIN
Rudge advanced, smiling and unctuous
"a rich treat, Lady Augusta. A rich
treat, indeed. Before retiring to rest this
evening shall commit fun account of
the evening to paper. 1t has been an
evening full of surprises and of instruc-
ton; an evening at once intellectual spir-
itual and eligiOus-especially religious
The future will see magnificent develop
ments of what we must now CALL sup
pose the Ancient Way. AS the movement
grows and spreads-as it spreads and
r-r-r-ramfies'-he spent space oircularly
with mis- hands-"you will want an Organ
izer, a lecturer, a secretary. You may
command me, Lady Augusta, Ny services
are at your disposal. Poor Lavina Med
lock 1t was kind to ask her here. You